Working as an Instructional Coach is a delicate balance of learning how to balance being a coach who frequently talks teachers “off the ledge” and not losing your teaching credibility. On one hand you’re still a teacher because many times you find yourself in classrooms helping a teacher with a particular lesson, but other times […]
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Adventures in Coaching..Giving Effective Teacher Feedback
This year I did what many teachers fear the most, I went over to the dark side of school administration in the form of being an Instructional Coach. As I transitioned into this role,I thought surely that this would give me more time to reflect and “cool my heels” -things that I rarely were able […]
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Students Don’t Have to Read a Novel to Read
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. -J.K. Rowling This infamous J.K. Rowling quote is often used with reluctant readers who feel that they “hate reading.” And what do we do as teachers? With great intentions, we work to help them find just the right book that will cure […]
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Opinion: Watch Your Tone, Fix Your Face, and Other Unspoken Rules for Educators of Color
“Mrs. Morrison, you’re going to be such an anomaly when you go to your interviews. They’ll snap you right up!” Harmless statement? Encouraging? I beg to differ. To the outside world this comment may have seemed innocuous, but to me, a Black educator, I knew what it really meant. So, let’s unpack this, shall we? […]
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Dear Administrators: Don’t Move Ineffective Teachers to a Lower Grade; Help Them Improve
Guest Writer: Shawnta S. Barnes The great school mix up is one strategy elementary principals use to remove ineffective teachers from upper elementary grades, the grades where state standardized tests are taken. Apparently, moving these teachers to an ‘easier’ grade will magically fix the problems they faced in their upper-grade classroom. There are a few […]
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Mission Have you ever sat in a professional learning opportunity to be told by someone who has never taught what you’re doing wrong in the classroom? If so, then you are a part of the 65% of teachers who rate their school-based professional learning as “ineffective”. The mission of The Educator’s Room Professional Learning is to […]
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Six Ways to Retain Teacher Autonomy
In the last post, we examined the role of rhetoric in our modern classrooms, and we discussed how to both detect it and filter it into categories that you can live with or live without. Once you become more adept at detecting rhetoric and categorizing it, you may be concerned about how it affects your […]